Love Letters

I found this via StumbleUpon (my favorite internet gadget thingy ever).

This is such a strikingly brilliant and vulnerable thing to me. The way it works is that this person wrote hundreds of love letters addressing people in her life and then shared them with strangers. She (“Asia”) wrote the letters, mailed the letters to strangers with the message glued to the outside of the envelope so anyone could read them along the way and then posted them online for the rest of us to read. The letters are color-coded depending on who they were written to: a crush, a former lover, a family member and so on.

I love this because it makes me think of a dream I’ve had for a while now to hide bits of poetry in the woods somewhere in the hopes that someone would find them. Anonymously, you know? Just little secret messages to whoever comes along. I would love to find something like that myself.